Sentence examples for argument known from inspiring English sources

In part this is because of an age-old argument known, in the EU jargon, as widening v deepening.

According to one line of argument, known as the tragedy of the commons, collective resources lack the incentives inherently built into a privately owned resource to self-limit their exploitation so as to ensure that they will last.

In the form of argument known as modus ponens, the categorical proposition affirms the antecedent of the conditional, and the conclusion affirms the consequent, as in the example just given.

A form of the reductio ad absurdum argument, known as indirect proof or reductio ad impossibile, is one that proves a proposition by showing that its denial conjoined with other propositions previously proved or accepted leads to a contradiction.

In a famous argument, known as the antinomy of the continuum, Kant tried to prove that the acceptance of the reality of spatial extension, the cornerstone of atomism, led to contradictions.

The Wisdom of Solomon, dating from the 1st century bce, shows an acquaintance with the Platonic doctrine of the preexistence of the soul and with a method of argument known as sorites, which was favoured by the Stoics (see Stoicism).

If I storm off of an argument, know I'm probably going to come here.

Lack of clear boundaries is what enables the puzzling slippery slope arguments known as "the beard" and "the heap".

He says of nomads that "much of their time is passed in gross idleness, particularly the Australian Aborigines whose dialectic arguments know no bounds of complication".

Chalmers's version of the argument (1996a , 2002, known as the "Zombie Argument", has been particularly influential.

This argument is known as the Quine-Putnam indispensability argument for mathematical realism.